In this article it will be posed, following Heidegger, that Nihilism, far from being a devastating consequence of crisis times, it is rather a donation of these times that allows the event of «thinking». In this horizon of meaning, it will be investigated the origins of the word nihilism and it will be addressed nihilism as the space that prepares the event of the being unfolding [Entfaltung]. Finally, it will be briefly studied the phrase of difficult interpretation "only a god can save us" uttered by Heidegger in an interview to the Spiegel journal.En este artículo se planteará, siguiendo a Heidegger, que el nihilismo, lejos de ser una consecuencia devastadora del tiempo de crisis es más bien una donación de este que posibilita realmente ...